Zvezdopad

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Zvezdopad
Studio album by
Grazhdanskaya Oborona
Released20 March 2002
RecordedGrOb Studio, August 2000-November 2001
GenreArt rock, psychedelic rock, shoegaze, noise pop
Length50:29
LabelGrOb/XOP/Misteria Zvuka (original CD/MC issue)
Wyrgorod/Neuro Empire (2010 CD reissue/2011 LP reissue)
ProducerEgor Letov
Grazhdanskaya Oborona chronology

(1997) 		Zvezdopad
(2002)
(2004)

Zvezdopad (Russian: Звездопад, meaning "Starfall" in Russian) is the 20th album by the Russian punk band Grazhdanskaya Oborona. The album was released on 20 March 2002 and consists of cover versions of classic Soviet songs.

History[]

Plans to record an album called Zvezdopad have existed in Egor Letov's journals since 1994. Many original handwritten track lists can be found at the GrOb website. One of these track lists even called for a version of Telstar to be recorded. The album itself was recorded during 2000 and 2001. It was finally released on 20 March 2002 on XOP/Moroz Records.

The launch party was held at the club "Tochka" in Moscow on 20 and 21 March of that year. The first pressing of the album came in a digipack, containing an absurdist painting of a tree with houses on its branches on the front cover which would later be reused for the CD issue in 2010. The booklet for that issue contained a painting of an antelope in a forest which would later be used on the 2011 vinyl reissue. Future pressings, as well as the Ukrainian first pressing, had an image of the band standing in the snow. That was issued in a standard jewel case.

In 2010, the album was reissued by Wyrgorod, who added three bonus tracks: a track called "Zachem snyatsya sny", recorded in the Zvezdopad sessions with bassist Natalia Chumakova on vocals and live versions of "Solnce vzoidet" and the Kommunizm song Tuman, recorded live at an Egor Letov concert in Barnaul in 2003. The 2011 vinyl reissue included a version of "Karavella" with Chumakova on vocals, in a jazz pop style evocative of Norah Jones. When originally recorded in 2000, the songs were instrumentals - Chumakova recorded her vocals in September 2007 when remastering the album.[1]

The tracks "Shla voina" and "Zachem snyatsya sny?" were previously included on the Egor i Opizdenevshie album Psychodelia Tomorrow in 2002.

Track list[]

No.TitleLyricsMusicLength
1."Песня красноармейца(Song of the Red Army man)" (из телефильма «»)Bulat OkudzhavaStanislav Pozhlakov02:35
2."Песня о циркаче(The song about a man from circus)"02:37
3."На дальней станции сойду(I will stop at the far station)"Mikhail TanichVladimir Shainsky04:25
4."Шла война(The war went on)"Bulat OkudzhavaBulat Okudzhava03:10
5."Звездопад(Star fall)"Nikolai DobronravovAleksandra Pakhmutova02:50
6."Ветер северный(The Northern wind)"Yan Frenkel02:05
7."Город детства(Childhood town)"Robert RozhdestvenskyFrank Miller05:01
8."На всю оставшуюся жизнь(For the rest of his life)" (from «For the Rest of His Life»)Pyotr FomenkoVeniamin Basner03:01
9."Слово — Товарищ(Word — Comrade)"Mikhail AncharovIlya Katayev02:51
10."Каравелла(Caravella)"В. КаллеВ. Калле02:45
11."Белое безмолвие(White silence)"Vladimir VysotskyVladimir Vysotsky03:27
12."Красный конь(Red horse)"Mikhail PlyatskovskyMark Fradkin01:02
13."Песенка про чёрную гуашь и надежду(The song about black paint and hope)"Vera MatveyevaVera Matveyeva01:41
14."Солнце взойдёт(The Sun will rise)" (from «The Bremen Town Musicians»)Yuri EntinGennady Gladkov04:40
15."Я ��ринял решение(I have decided)"Mikael Tariverdiev01:57
16."Свой среди чужих(Our man among strangers)" (from «At Home Among Strangers») Eduard Artemyev05:18
Бонус-треки из переиздания
No.TitleLyricsMusicLength
17."Зачем снятся сны"Robert RozhdestvenskyStanislav Pozhlakov5:34
18."Туман" (live)2:23
19."Солнце взойдёт" (live)  3:26

References[]

  1. ^ http://grob-hroniki.org/music/evolution/alb_zvezdopad.html#v_wyr_2

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